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Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics was held at Le Stade Olympique de Glace in Grenoble, France. Ice dance, then known as "rhythmic skating," was a demonstration event and was won by the team of Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of Great Britain.[1] It became a medal event eight years later in 1976 Innsbruck.[2]

Figure skating at the Winter Olympics
Type:Olympic Games
Venue:Le Stade Olympique de Glace
Champions
Men's singles:
Austria Wolfgang Schwarz
Ladies' singles:
United States Peggy Fleming
Pairs:
Soviet Union Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov
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American figure skater Peggy Fleming built up a huge lead after the compulsory figures and won the first-place votes of all nine judges.[3] Her victory marked the first gold medal won by an American after the death of an entire US figure skating team in an air crash in 1961, and heralded an American figure skating renaissance.[4]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union1102
  United States1102
3  Austria1001
4  East Germany0101
5  Czechoslovakia0011
  France0011
  West Germany0011
Totals (7 entries)3339

Results

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Men

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Rank Name Nation CF FS Points Places
1 Wolfgang Schwarz   Austria 1 2 1904.1 13
2 Tim Wood   United States 2 3 1891.6 17
3 Patrick Péra   France 3 7 1864.5 31
4 Emmerich Danzer   Austria 4 1 1873.0 29
5 Gary Visconti   United States 6 5 1810.2 52
6 John Misha Petkevich   United States 8 4 1806.2 56
7 Jay Humphry   Canada 9 6 1795.0 63
8 Ondrej Nepela   Czechoslovakia 5 10 1772.8 73
9 Sergei Chetverukhin   Soviet Union 11 11 1737.0 93
10 Marian Filc   Czechoslovakia 13 8 1734.2 97
11 Günter Zöller   East Germany 10 14 1727.9 100
12 Peter Krick   West Germany 7 16 1723.2 104
13 Philippe Pélissier   France 14 12 1706.0 114
14 Giordano Abbondati   Italy 12 18 1690.9 117
15 Michael Williams   Great Britain 15 15 1650.9 147
16 David McGillivray   Canada 21 9 1663.7 139
17 Haig Oundjian   Great Britain 19 13 1639.5 154
18 Sergei Volkov   Soviet Union 16 17 1632.0 158
19 Jenő Ébert   Hungary 17 24 1595.4 180
20 Jacques Mrozek   France 18 20 1601.0 179
21 Tsuguhiko Kozuka   Japan 24 19 1584.0 189
22 Steve Hutchinson   Canada 22 21 1578.3 193
23 Günter Anderl   Austria 20 23 1574.7 193
24 Jürgen Eberwein   West Germany 25 22 1530.3 219
25 Yutaka Higuchi   Japan 23 26 1529.6 218
26 Jan Hoffmann   East Germany 26 25 1437.8 238
27 Thomas Callerud   Sweden 27 27 1399.3 241
28 Lee Gwang-yeong   South Korea 28 28 1360.3 250

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Ladies

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Rank Name Nation CF FS Points Places
1 Peggy Fleming   United States 1 1 1970.5 9
2 Gabriele Seyfert   East Germany 2 2 1882.3 18
3 Hana Mašková   Czechoslovakia 4 3 1828.8 31
4 Albertina Noyes   United States 5 7 1797.3 40
5 Beatrix Schuba   Austria 3 12 1773.2 51
6 Zsuzsa Almássy   Hungary 6 8 1757.0 57
7 Karen Magnussen   Canada 10 4 1759.4 63
8 Kumiko Okawa   Japan 8 5 1763.6 61
9 Janet Lynn   United States 14 6 1698.7 90
10 Monika Feldmann   West Germany 11 13 1687.1 99
11 Sally-Anne Stapleford   Great Britain 7 17 1680.9 105
12 Elena Shcheglova   Soviet Union 13 10 1670.4 110
13 Linda Carbonetto   Canada 24 9 1662.9 111
14 Kazumi Yamashita   Japan 15 14 1639.0 139
15 Patricia Dodd   Great Britain 9 27 1634.6 140
16 Galina Grzhibovskaya   Soviet Union 25 11 1628.5 144
17 Petra Ruhrmann   West Germany 16 18 1611.2 161
18 Elisabeth Mikula   Austria 17 19 1612.5 164
19 Eileen Zillmer   West Germany 12 23 1600.3 171
20 Micheline Joubert   France 28 15 1594.8 182
21 Marie Víchová   Czechoslovakia 20 16 1580.4 187
22 Charlotte Walter   Switzerland 21 26 1571.5 202.5
23 Elisabeth Nestler   Austria 26 21 1562.6 208
24 Frances Waghorn   Great Britain 22 28 1557.2 211
25 Rita Trapanese   Italy 27 24 1549.2 216.5
26 Haruko Ishida   Japan 18 25 1552.7 218
27 Sylvaine Duban   France 19 29 1551.4 219
28 Sonja Morgenstern   East Germany 29 22 1475.9 251
29 Beatrice Huștiu   Romania 31 20 1457.2 257
30 Lee Hyeon-ju   South Korea 30 30 1359.9 271
31 Kim Hye-gyeong   South Korea 32 31 1336.2 277
WD Lyndsai Cowan   Canada 23

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Pairs

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Rank Name Nation SP FS Points Places
1 Liudmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov   Soviet Union 1 1 315.2 10
2 Tatiana Zhuk / Alexander Gorelik   Soviet Union 2 2 312.3 17
3 Margot Glockshuber / Wolfgang Danne   West Germany 3 3 304.4 30
4 Heidemarie Steiner / Heinz-Ulrich Walther   East Germany 4 4 303.1 37
5 Tamara Moskvina / Alexei Mishin   Soviet Union 6 5 300.3 44
6 Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman   United States 5 7 297.0 58
7 Sandi Sweitzer / Roy Wagelein   United States 8 6 294.5 64.5
8 Gudrun Hauss / Walter Häfner   West Germany 7 9 293.6 67
9 Irene Müller / Hans-Georg Dallmer   East Germany 9 8 289.4 82
10 Bohunka Šrámková / Jan Šrámek   Czechoslovakia 10 10 285.8 91.5
11 Marianne Streifler / Herbert Wiesinger   West Germany 12 11 282.7 100
12 Liana Drahová / Peter Bartosiewicz   Czechoslovakia 11 15 276.8 116
13 JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley   United States 14 12 276.0 121
14 Janina Poremska / Piotr Sczypa   Poland 13 14 274.1 120
15 Evelyne Schneider / Wilhelm Bietak   Austria 15 13 272.2 129
16 Anna Forder / Richard Stephens   Canada 16 16 269.2 138
17 Betty McKilligan / John McKilligan   Canada 17 17 254.8 154
18 Linda Bernard / Ray Wilson   Great Britain 18 18 251.2 160

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References

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  1. ^ "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Figure Skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  3. ^ Beijing 2008 Archived 1 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Ford, Bonnie D. (2011). "Still Crystal Clear". ESPN. Retrieved 19 February 2014. The plane crash that killed the 1961 U.S. world championship figure skating team decimated families and the sport, but alongside grief came renewal.
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